As the hockey world swirls with rumors of Sidney Crosby being shut down for the season — or perhaps forever — agent Pat Brisson nixed the scuttlebutt today in emphatic fashion.

“Sidney is doing very well, he’s training, he’s going in the right direction,” Brisson told ESPN. “The idea of retiring or shutting him down is not even in our vocabulary. Far from that.”

Brisson was likely responding to a report from Sportsnet’s Nick Kypreos in which the former NHLer boldly stated that Crosby’s season was over. (There are “shutdown-for-year” rumors floating around Twitter too, like this.) Crosby, of course, hasn’t played since Dec. 5 — a 3-1 loss to Boston — in which he played a season-high 21:03, but also suffered a series of hits which triggered concussion symptoms.

Minnesota Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk has been the most difficult goalies to score against this season. Leave it to a high-level player like Leon Draisaitl to make it look this, well, “easy.”

Draisaitl scored his 13th goal of 2016-17 by capping this pretty give-and-go play with Benoit Pouliot. You can see the frustration from Dubnyk at the end of the tally, as if he was saying “How was I supposed to stop that?” (though probably with more colorful language).

Draisaitl came into Friday with five goals and three assists in his last five games, so he’s been almost unstoppable lately.